Comment on Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from

• cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  what is personally wrong with gates?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    He’s really awful too, or at the very least he used to be.

    He’s done a lot of rebranding himself as being a great guy as of late, and put his money towards some great causes.

    But when he was in charge of Microsoft he’d openly treat people like shit, openly steal things, openly do anticompetitive and illegal business practices, deliberately put small companies out of business, and openly bribe politicians to look the other way as he built his illegally-gained business empire.

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    • OscarRobin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      All the recent stuff is him trying to whitewash his image so he isn’t remembered as the bastard he is. Unfortunately, it’s working.

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      • MalachiAzrael@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        At least he some good causes are getting something out of it

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    • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      put his money towards some great causes

      Don’t forget how much MS lobbied countries all over the world to spend public money on MS products. Plus the anticompetitive shenanigans, it’s more of an our money.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      If you accept his research money (which people don’t seem to do anymore) there are so many strings attached that if you find something you’ll probably be liable even if you give it all up for free.

      I’m still waiting for something good coming out of his pocket money spendings for good causes.

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  • kamenoko@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    1. He’s a billionaire.
    2. Cheated on his wife.
    3. Travelled to Epstein’s Island.
    4. Got removed from Microsoft for propositioning female employees for sex
    5. Used Microsoft’s market position to kill off any competition. Remember Netscape?
    6. His foundation pushed hard to make the COVID vaccines intellectual property of drug manufacturers so they would get richer, leaving the world dependent on them for doses instead of allowing everyone to produce it.

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    • Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the incessant lobbying for charter schools even though nobody wants them and there’s no research to suggest they are better than the public system.

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  • nyoooom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    He’s a giant asshole too (I mean when you look at Microsoft it’s not very positive) but he’s worked a lot on his image in the last decades

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Bill Gates does some genuinely great things for humanity.

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  • explodicle@local106.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    With money he got from a monopoly, meaning the money he took plus the deadweight loss are even worse for humanity. Computers would be even better today if it wasn’t for him, and we would’ve produced better things than we have today.

    Monopolists “giving back” is insidious because it’s much easier to see what they gave us than what they took away.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I agree with you but he’s not on the same page as Steve Jobs, not in my book. Billionaires can’t exist in a fair system so they’re existence isn’t justified but comparatively speaking he is better than Jobs

      We may have better computers but Malaria may be more of an issue, whereas without Jobs nothing of note would be missing other too many biopics.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Malaria is still around though, spending pocket change for a cause doesn’t mean it’s helping (especially with all the strings attached if you actually get a grant).

        Malaria will be beaten with classic research. I mean it’s still all around…

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    • porkins@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The standardization of operating systems was an important step though. If there were hundreds of different OS’s on the market, then the PC generation would have stalled. The fact that there were basically only three dominant platforms meant that we could have market stability.

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      • explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Where have you heard that a monopoly can be more beneficial than harmful because of standardization? Has that happened with any other monopolies?

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• sep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  He have really taken an adolf nobel turn.

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• gamey@feddit.rocks ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  He should have copied Jobs and just died sooner!

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